Iraq abuse allegations: Resist, deny, hide Theresa May has made it clear she intends to follow previous governments in tarnishing Iraq abuse allegations as false. Final day of a 7 day series (first appeared in openDemocracy here). At the...

Privacy watchdog ‘stonewalling’ over attempts to reveal number of anti-fracking protestors caught in ‘deradicalisation’ programme The privacy watchdog was accused this week of ‘stonewalling’ after having rejected a challenge to police...

Rising tide of allegations suggests ‘systemic abuse’ by British military Rogue military personnel? Or a deliberate policy of abuse? Day 6 of our 7 day series on alleged abuse by British soldiers in Iraq. (Day five of a seven day series. This...

More British torture in Iraq and the state’s ‘corporate memory loss’ Hooding, sensory deprivation, stress positions. . . methods used illegally in 1970s Northern Ireland are deployed again. (Day five of a seven day series. This series first...

From war to occupation in Iraq : The killing of Baha Mousa On Monday we reported on Prime Minister Theresa May’s promise to crack down on ‘activist left wing human rights lawyers’ to prevent them ‘harassing’ British...

A drowned boy, an apology, an attack on ‘activist, left-wing human rights lawyers’ On 15 September 2016 the British government issued a public apology for the death of Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, an Iraqi teenager who drowned after being forced into...

A conspiracy cooked up by ‘activist left-wing human rights’ lawyers? Government and media have denied, dismissed and derided allegations of abuse by British soldiers in Iraq. Over seven days we’ll interrogate a very British scandal. Day 1: Attack...

Brexit means Brexit (subject to parliamentary approval) The High Court has ruled that the government does not have the power to effect the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union using the royal prerogative, without reference to...

Supreme Court to hear challenge to ban on NHS abortions for Northern Irish women The Supreme Court will today consider the position of hundreds of pregnant women forced to travel from Northern Ireland to England every year to pay hundreds of...

Children speak out about ‘heavy-handed’ policing Over half of young people felt that the police did not have a good relationship with them and one in 10 felt harassed, according to new research by the the Children’s Rights Alliance...

Amnesty slams government’s for ‘extreme haste’ of devastating legal aid cuts Amnesty International is calling for an immediate review of the 2013 legal aid cuts which, they argue, were introduced with ‘extreme haste’ and without...

Plans for UK military to opt out of human rights laws would leave our soldiers without vital protections At the Conservative party conference last week the Government heralded a ‘landmark measure’ to protect armed forces from ‘persistent legal...